Nº4 DEC 2017 OFFICIAL NEWS @BAYVIEWGLEN The Joy and Beauty of the Season Age 2 to University Entrance Coeducational | Multicultural | Multi-Denominational | bayviewglen.ca MESSAGE FROM THE What’s Inside... BOARD MESSAGE 4 Head of BETTER BEGINNINGS 5 School CALLING ALL ARTISTS 6 GWYNNE DYER 6 ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING 7 EVENTS LISTINGS 7 ROBOTICS 8 STAFF PROFILES 9 As we prepare for the Holiday HOLIDAY CONCERTS 10 Season and after a year of incredible BVG CAMP 12 global tragedies, I believe that it is TAKING IT TO THE STREAM 13 important for us as individuals, as ATHLETICS 14 families and as a school community SKI DAYS 20 to pause and reflect on the truly DECA 21 SKATING PROGRAMME 21 You’ll never guess what The Parent Association important things in life. SPEAKER SERIES 22 has wrapped up for you during the hese are, in particular, family This programme has been enormously and home life, friends, health successful and this year, we will once GRADS UNITED 23 and the good fortune to live again be helping 75 individual families and raise our children in in the Toronto area start the New Year CHAPTERS NIGHT 24 a peaceful country, where feeling the support and generosity of 12 Days of Christmas Tthere is the promise of a future with our community. It is also a tangible ROUND SQUARE 26 opportunities for our children and the way to involve all the students, both knowledge that we are able to provide young and old in a meaningful way. RECIPE 27 life’s necessities for those we love. As for the parents, students, staff and UPPER SCHOOL SEC 29 It is also a time of year to reach out faculty who participate – we receive at the Shops the most rewarding gift of all: and share with others who – through TECHNOCUP 29 no fault of their own – are in need of making a positive contribution to the lives of others and learning the joy of assistance and support. Volunteering ADVANCEMENT NEWS 30 and giving back to those in need is giving back. indeed part of the spirit of the season. On behalf of the faculty and staff of ALUMNI NEWS 30 We have a long and established Bayview Glen, I wish you a peaceful partnership with the Better Beginnings and happy holiday season spent with PARENT ASSOCIATION 32 those you love. Programme/Adventure Place. Through On the cover: Painting by Anisha Kapoor, Grade 11 this project each class, mentor group and administration department at the school is assigned a family and given a list of their specific needs. We all collect the various items and then they are Eileen Daunt packaged and delivered to the families Head of School Starting December 1st, check your email just before we break for the holidays. each day to unwrap a surprising new gift idea. Mini Market • December 18 • 8 - 11 am and 3 - 5 pm Stop by the Moatfield Shop for coffee, baked goods or pickup any last minute gifts bayviewglen.ca/association-events MESSAGE FROM THE Board of Directors Inspiring Global Leadership – From Student to CEO ow do you prepare the students with men and women blazing a trail in their Within BVG, these same building blocks/enablers of today to become the leaders of respective fields. They exemplify this kind of are being seen as “inspiring global leadership & tomorrow? What can we do with leadership and mindset. What they all have in an entrepreneurial mindset.” For example: the curriculum right now to ensure common is the ability to do these three things: • E ngaging the talents of our community (alumni, Hthat it develops the intellectual, technical and Fast Facts 1. Identify Challenges - to see around corners parents and friends) in opening doors/providing interpersonal skills necessary to meet the 16 • The number of years 75 • Families supported and predict what challenges the world will real-world experiences and story sharing such as challenges that organisations will face in the Bayview Glen has partnered each year face tomorrow, our Career Breakfasts. with Adventure Place – Better future? These were some of the core questions Approximate 2. Collaboratively Solve - to come up with Beginnings $58,500 • that the Board tackled with Mrs. Daunt and her • C o-curriculars like the Lower School Leadership amount of gift cards donated leadership team in developing our current 2015- effective and meaningful solutions to address Club, MunkSchool, BioBuilders, YPI and Model these challenges, 1,525 • To date the number of over 16 years 2020 Strategic Plan – providing a pathway that will UN are all aimed at exposing our students hampers packed for families enable our students to become impactful leaders 3. P urposefully Lead - to lead with character so to be better prepared to identify and predict on a global stage. that others feel connected to and can tangibly challenges the world will be facing tomorrow. actualize their vision. For more information on • D eveloping a plan to adjust assessment Better Beginnings, contact and evaluation practices to accommodate Celebrating 16 years of partnership In the world of business, the building blocks/ Ms. Leah Kanary by email at enablers of these new capabilities are being seen opportunities that allow students to in tangible ways as companies employ new and collaboratively turn ideas into action, extend with Better Beginnings [email protected] different approaches to their learning environment: inquiry and develop solutions. Bayview Glen began its partnership with Adventure at Bayview Glen fills a hamper for a selected • G lobal information leader Thomson Reuters, • E xpanding and enriching the Round Square Place Better Beginnings as it was just launching family. The students are given details about their employs a “150-Feet from Food” rule whereby programme to position Bayview Glen as a its Holiday Hamper Programme in 2001. The designated family, including the ages of the leading member through innovative integration no part of the office is more than 150 feet away charitable organization works with young, children and their interests. of the IDEALS internally and with other Round As the father of two bright and very inquisitive from either a restaurant, large cafeteria, or micro- vulnerable families to ensure healthy development Square schools. This will allow even richer, daughters, I am always looking at what they are kitchen. They have found this has significantly of children up to six years of age. These families Kick off assemblies were held at both campuses where increased the spontaneous exploration of more impactful opportunities to develop our learning to make sure it will help prepare them may be new to the country and having difficulty past recipient families spoke warmly about the impact potential new challenges and ideas as employees students as purposeful leaders who can help for whatever path they decide to take. In a similar learning a new language, finding work, coping the donations made to their lives. Our community way, within my own business practice, I constantly snack and constantly bump into coworkers from organizations elevate humanity to the greatest different teams within the company. extent possible. with a restricted budget, or accessing community benefits from working together and giving back to seek to understand what the new business realities services. Each homeroom and mentor group others in our neighbourhood over the holiday season. are demanding in terms of necessary skills and by • At the leading financial services provider The skills necessary for success tomorrow are extension how these capabilities might be learned. Deluxe Corp., they have minimized personal being established today across the playing field of These new necessary skills will benefit the budding space in lieu of creative environments such business and also within Bayview Glen. A critical executive on the verge of leading an organization, a as pods of oversized, high-backed couches parallel between these two worlds sets BVG apart new company hire ready to start their career, or for and communal tables strategically positioned and prepares our students to confidently step into nd my daughters who are just beginning to embark on between groups to encourage collaborative the role that awaits them as global leaders armed 2 Edition of Viewpoint Magazine is out! their journey of learning. ideation and integrative thinking to solve “hot with an entrepreneurial mindset. Innovation is the theme of our second find out why a honeybee hive arrived One of our core priorities in our Bayview topics” that are mission critical. annual school-wide publication at Moatfield Campus thanks to a Glen strategic framework is to “inspire global • A t Universal Supply, one of North America’s Viewpoint. The magazine is full new innovative club at the Upper leadership and an entrepreneurial mindset.” largest distributor of automotive parts, the CEO of inspiring stories featuring our School. Our magazine editorial team You might wonder what traits a global leader as well as each member of the leadership team remarkable alumni and current meets in early spring to establish the with an entrepreneurial mindset possesses, and regularly give back in radical personal ways that go students. Our cover story on content of Viewpoint. We rely on many how can we help our students to develop them. far beyond the norm by powerfully re-investing Nick Caduc, Board Chair Yafa Sakkejha ’03 reveals how an talented writers to contribute to our Well, in my line of work, I come in contact daily into the communities they serve for long term. [email protected] entrepreneurial mindset helped storytelling and we work with one of establish a start-up company with a the best photographers in the city to twist. 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